Derek, Thank you very much for drawing my attention to the http://www.wargraves.org.uk/ photo site. I found one of my relatives there but two others were not shown, including one who was awarded the DCM in WW1. Fortunately, due to the kindness of another member of this list who lives in Canada and went to Heilly cemetery a few years ago and while there saw my relative' s gravestone and photographed it for me, I now have a photo of his gravestone. Now, thanks to your telling us about the war photo group, I will send the photo taken at Heilly to them, along with another photo taken of his father 's gravestone which is on the CWGC site but has not yet appeared on the group 's war photos wonderful site. Actually, this is the second time this week that, in the first instance , someone in the group has taken the trouble to send information to the group which is useful to all of us and I want the person, in this case, Derek, to know that their thoughtfulness is much appreciated. The other instance was earlier, in the week, when Steve sent me a photo he had taken while on a trip to Ypres for which I have already thanked him. Their actions give me the opportunity to raise a point about the egalitarian nature of the group which is not always as clear as it should be. Random acts of kindness by any member of the group for the benefit of any of us should be seen to be appreciated by all of us or they will not continue to be forthcoming. In my opinion, all contributions from any individual members of the group are just as worthy as are the valuable contributions from some of our experts. If this idea is not accepted , then we could create a situation in the group similar to George Orwell's Animal farm where all the animals on the farm were equal except that some were more equal than others. I don 't subscribe to that notion at all. Patrick Holland. Perth Western Australia. Derek Driscoll wrote: > Steve > Have you considered sending the photos to the British War memorial project > at http://www.wargraves.org.uk/ > It would be a sham to delete the pictures of the graves that you have spent > time and effort collecting. > The project would i am sure make good use of them. > Regards > Derek > Derek J. Driscoll > > Researching > 1st South Midland Bde/240 Bde RFA [TF] > 1908-1919 A website for the Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery is at > http://www.bristolgunners.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve" <morse.steve@btinternet.com> > To: "DERBYSGEN-L@rootsweb. com" <DERBYSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Cc: "Nottsgen-L@rootsweb. com" <Nottsgen-L@rootsweb.com>; > "GREATWAR-L@rootsweb. com" <GREATWAR-L@rootsweb.com>; > <ENG-LINCSGEN-L@rootsweb.com>; "LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb. com" > <LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 8:16 PM > Subject: [GREATWAR] Photos of World War 1 men's headstones - you should > havehad them > > > >> Hello Each >> All the photos from the recent visit to Belgium and France have gone out. >> Most people have received them. If you have not, please contact me. If you >> have - please contact me as I will be destroying the photos next week. I >> need to free up some disk space. >> >> Regards >> Steve >> >> >> Researching 9th (service) Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys >> Regiment) during the Great War. >> >> www.ypressalient.co.uk >> >> People ask me my religion - my religion is kindness - True enlightenment >> is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realised >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >

Hi List, If anyone is interested in pictures of how Basrah cemetery looks now I can send in an attachment. Best wishes Dave -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 27/10/2006

Hello Fellow Researchers, When I started research in the early '90's, I tried to locate records on my two uncles from Bayonne, NJ, whose death certificates indicated they served in WWI. I was unable to find anything through the Army, since I had no information to give them except their names and birth and death dates. I contacted the Navy and found one uncle. When I called the army base in Bayonne, they were in the process of closing and couldn't help me. Neither could the NJ VA. Are any of the Army records on-line now? Or is it still just as difficult? Any help will be appreciated. Nancy

me too delilah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Irv Mortenson" <irvmort@olypen.com> To: <greatwar@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Deaths not found on the CWG Site | Dave: | | I'd appreciate receiving the Basrah photos. Send to: irvmort@olypen.com | | Thanks - | | | Irv | ----- Original Message ----- | From: Dave Coulter | To: greatwar@rootsweb.com | Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:26 AM | Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Deaths not found on the CWG Site | | | Hi List, | If anyone is interested in pictures of how Basrah cemetery looks now I can | send in an attachment. | Best wishes | Dave | | -- | No virus found in this outgoing message. | Checked by AVG Free Edition. | Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 27/10/2006 | | | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Barbara Might this be the David Wilson? http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=875286 Do the parents' names fit? Mike Shingleton -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Dennis <tdennis@ihug.co.nz> Sent Subject: [GREATWAR] Deaths not found on the CWG Site > I have been given new names to follow up on with regards to my tree. > Their dates of death at first glance would seem that they died in > WW1 & the ages would also tie in to that. > I have searched the war graves site for a reference to them with no > luck, using just first initial, & alternative spellings. > Can anyone suggest another way of confirming if they were in the war or not. > Names given are: - > James Hall JOHNSTON died 13 Jan 1916 aged 32. > Archibald WILSON died 13 Oct 1917 aged 56.(Maybe too old for the war?) > David McNaught WILSON died 10 Oct 1917 > I located a brother of James Johnston recorded with an 'e' who was > part of the Lincolnshire Regiment & was killed 28 April 1917. > Grateful for any help provided. > Barbara D > Auckland, NZ > All are from from UK or Scotland by birth. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:01:11 +1300, "Barbara Dennis" <tdennis@ihug.co.nz> wrote: >I have been given new names to follow up on with regards to my tree. >Their dates of death at first glance would seem that they died in WW1 & the ages would also tie in to that. >I have searched the war graves site for a reference to them with no luck, using just first initial, & alternative spellings. >Can anyone suggest another way of confirming if they were in the war or not. > >Names given are: - >James Hall JOHNSTON died 13 Jan 1916 aged 32. >I located a brother of James Johnston recorded with an 'e' who was part of the Lincolnshire Regiment & was killed 28 April 1917. I think that it's likely that the following soldier is the one you seek. Note how his surname is spelt Johnstone, in the same way as the brother you found: http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1656862 Name: JOHNSTONE, JAMES Initials: J Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment Unit Text: 2nd Bn. Date of Death: 13/01/1916 Service No: 6872 Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 12. Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL Assuming the brother was Herbert, Soldier's Died in the Great War has the following information for the two men. Notice how James and Herbert enlisted and resided in the same place, which ties the two men together pretty well. Regl No 6872 Name JOHNSTONE, JAMES Rank PRIVATE Date of Death 13/01/1916 How Died Killed in Action Regt Leicestershire Regiment Bn 2nd Battalion Born STONEY GATE, LEICS Enlisted LEICESTER Resided OADBY, LEICS Where Died MESOPOTAMIA Regl No 43578 Name JOHNSTONE, HERBERT Rank PRIVATE Died 28/04/1917 How Died Killed in Action Remarks FORMERLY 5059, LEICS REGT. Regt Lincolnshire Regiment Battalion 10th Battalion Enlisted LEICESTER Resided OADBY, LEICS Theatre where died FRANCE & FLANDERS >Archibald WILSON died 13 Oct 1917 aged 56.(Maybe too old for the war?) Although quite a lot of men in their 50s did serve, in normal circumstances 56 was too old to have been in the Army at the lower end of the rank scale. >David McNaught WILSON died 10 Oct 1917 There are a couple of David Wilsons who died on that date listed in the CWGC database - do you have a place of birth or an address to compare with Soldiers Died in the Great War? Forrest -- Forrest Anderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. E-mail: forrest@military-researcher.com Website: www.military-researcher.com Forrestdale Research - Military Genealogical Researcher

Dave: I'd appreciate receiving the Basrah photos. Send to: irvmort@olypen.com Thanks - Irv ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Coulter To: greatwar@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 4:26 AM Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] Deaths not found on the CWG Site Hi List, If anyone is interested in pictures of how Basrah cemetery looks now I can send in an attachment. Best wishes Dave -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.17/505 - Release Date: 27/10/2006 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Steve Have you considered sending the photos to the British War memorial project at http://www.wargraves.org.uk/ It would be a sham to delete the pictures of the graves that you have spent time and effort collecting. The project would i am sure make good use of them. Regards Derek Derek J. Driscoll Researching 1st South Midland Bde/240 Bde RFA [TF] 1908-1919 A website for the Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery is at http://www.bristolgunners.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" <morse.steve@btinternet.com> To: "DERBYSGEN-L@rootsweb. com" <DERBYSGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: "Nottsgen-L@rootsweb. com" <Nottsgen-L@rootsweb.com>; "GREATWAR-L@rootsweb. com" <GREATWAR-L@rootsweb.com>; <ENG-LINCSGEN-L@rootsweb.com>; "LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb. com" <LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 8:16 PM Subject: [GREATWAR] Photos of World War 1 men's headstones - you should havehad them > Hello Each > All the photos from the recent visit to Belgium and France have gone out. > Most people have received them. If you have not, please contact me. If you > have - please contact me as I will be destroying the photos next week. I > need to free up some disk space. > > Regards > Steve > > > Researching 9th (service) Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys > Regiment) during the Great War. > > www.ypressalient.co.uk > > People ask me my religion - my religion is kindness - True enlightenment > is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realised > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hello Each All the photos from the recent visit to Belgium and France have gone out. Most people have received them. If you have not, please contact me. If you have - please contact me as I will be destroying the photos next week. I need to free up some disk space. Regards Steve Researching 9th (service) Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regiment) during the Great War. www.ypressalient.co.uk People ask me my religion - my religion is kindness - True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realised

Hi Rob A google search will provide pently of hits including this http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/loos.htm Ny great uncle William COTTAM died during the battle on the 25th September (3 days before the attack was abandoned). He was serving with the 1st Middlesex regiment (probably) Thanks Chris -----Original Message----- From: greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ROBERT VAUGHAN Sent: 24 October 2006 16:45 To: greatwar@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GREATWAR] RWF Hi all Im just posting my interest on this site and would be great to hear from anyone who is doing the same. My grand father was Ptv Sam Vaughan from Ammanford in Carmthernshire. He signed up for the "Great" (odd word to use) war In Aug 1914 and Joined the 9th Royal welsh fusiliers. He only saw action for about 2 minutes on the 25th of Sept 1915 before being shoot twice by machine gun at the battle of Loos, My interest is The 9th Royal Welsh fusilier's The 9th Royal welsh fusilier's was diary 1914 - 1915 The Battle of Loos IF anyone has any interest or info on this would be glad to hear from them Thanks Rob ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Each Anyone who requested a photo of a headstone/memorial should receive them soon. Please reply to let me know they have arrived. I also have photos of two cemeteries were east Midlands men are buried - Sebourg France and Bridge House Cemetery, Ypres - If anyone has a man in either, contact me. Steve Researching 9th (service) Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regiment) during the Great War. www.ypressalient.co.uk People ask me my religion - my religion is kindness - True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realised

Hi Both, Not much help to your own research but we have a man from the same battalion killed on the same day....Researched as part of a Journal we will be publishing next year on all the military deaths to men of the Ogmore Valley.....We have three other men from the same battalion, two killed on 3rd Jul 1916 and another on 7th Nov 1918.... Regards Huw Secretary, OVLH&HS www.ogmore.plus.com huw@ogmore.plus.com Peter Metcalfe wrote: > Hi Rob > > I too am researching three men of the 9th RWF who were killed at the Battle of Loos on 25th Sep 1915. > > Pte Joseph Walter Hill, Staff Sergt Trevor Owen Hughes and Pte Robert Edward Williams. > They have no known graves and are remembered on the Loos memorial. > > They may well have known your grandad. > > Regards > > Peter > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:29:26 +0000 (GMT), ROBERT VAUGHAN <robert.vaughan@btinternet.com> wrote: >I found some photos with my dad papers a while ago. In there were 3 photos of soldiers and I assume from the 1st ww. My grand father was in the 9th royal welsh fusiliers during WWI but none of them are of him. > >would be grateful if anyone could take a look and see if the can tel what regiment they think they were with. > >The photos can be found at > >http://vaughanswar-robvaughan1005.blogspot.com/ Bigger is better when it comes to presenting photos for identification, and the photos you've put up, even if you click on them to get a slightly larger version, don't show the badges large enough for reliable identification. Pressing my nose to the screen(!), I reckon that the badge in the first one depicts a grenade with a scroll below, and may well be that of the Lancashire Fusiliers, with the scroll partly hidden by the leather chinstrap - see the photo at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=110045309959 In the second photo, the badge is probably a flaming grenade, and in view of what you say about your relatives, could easily be that of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers - see http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180039485434 However other Fusilier regiments also wore this design of badge - see for example the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Munster Fusilier, and Northumberland Fusiliers. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230037631657 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180034916163 The badge in third photo could well be that of the Royal Engineers, but I'd like to see a larger version before committing myself further. Forrest <wiping nose prints from his screen!> -- Forrest Anderson, Edinburgh, Scotland. E-mail: forrest@military-researcher.com Website: www.military-researcher.com Forrestdale Research - Military Genealogical Researcher

Thank you Alan Peter

Hello Peter, Basically what happened with all regiments was that as they duplicated the # Battalion became the 1/# Bn and its duplicate became 2/# Bn with the 3/# Bn feeding them as they depleted, some regiments duplicated much more say like the 7/# Bn... So in short the answer you seek is that the 5th Bn became the 1/5th Bn. Alan... > -----Original Message----- > From: greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Peter Metcalfe > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:32 PM > To: greatwar@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GREATWAR] RWF > > I am researching men who were with the 1/5th and 2/5th Bn RWF > and others who were with the 5th Bn RWF. > > Are they three seperate regiments or regarding the latter > have they just left out the 1st or 2nd? > > Regards > > Peter > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Hi Rob I too am researching three men of the 9th RWF who were killed at the Battle of Loos on 25th Sep 1915. Pte Joseph Walter Hill, Staff Sergt Trevor Owen Hughes and Pte Robert Edward Williams. They have no known graves and are remembered on the Loos memorial. They may well have known your grandad. Regards Peter

Hi all Im just posting my interest on this site and would be great to hear from anyone who is doing the same. My grand father was Ptv Sam Vaughan from Ammanford in Carmthernshire. He signed up for the "Great" (odd word to use) war In Aug 1914 and Joined the 9th Royal welsh fusiliers. He only saw action for about 2 minutes on the 25th of Sept 1915 before being shoot twice by machine gun at the battle of Loos, My interest is The 9th Royal Welsh fusilier's The 9th Royal welsh fusilier's was diary 1914 - 1915 The Battle of Loos IF anyone has any interest or info on this would be glad to hear from them Thanks Rob

I am researching men who were with the 1/5th and 2/5th Bn RWF and others who were with the 5th Bn RWF. Are they three seperate regiments or regarding the latter have they just left out the 1st or 2nd? Regards Peter

Have you tried the Naval and Military Press. I know they have reprinted several War dairies, as I have bought the Dorset and the Royal Irish Dragoon Guards from them. Cheers Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:greatwar-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Peter Metcalfe Sent: 23 October 2006 14:54 To: greatwar@rootsweb.com Subject: [GREATWAR] Book Search - Royal Welsh Fusiliers Hello Does anyone know where I can get a copy of this book please? The War Diary(1914-1918) of 10th(service) Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers. Edited by Lt Col F.N. Burton, assisted by Lt A.P. Comyns MC. Published in 1926. Thanks Peter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes I've tried the Naval and Military Press. Thanks Peter